Ray: For all the talk that Tiger Woods is back, having assumed the ranking of once again being
the world’s number one golfer, I could not help but notice that having finished his second round in
this week’s Tour Championship, which offers a $10 million bonus prize to the season long champion
in addition to the $1.4 million that the winner of the tournament receives, that he is tied for
29th place. That in itself, might not sound too bad, however, there is only thirty golfers in the
tournament, being played at East Lake Country Club in Atlanta.

Having won five tournaments this year to obtain the number one ranking, television golf
analysts all seem to rave about his play, believing him back to his prime when he seemingly won a
tournament simply by teeing off. However, they all fail to notice that most of his wins this
year were all on courses he has done very well through the years. This year, Tiger won at
Torrey Pines for the seventh time, at Bay Hill for the eighth time, at Firestone also for the
eighth time and the World Gulf Championship - Cadillac Championship, which was held this year at
Doral, where he won a tournament on that course for the fifth time. His other win was The
Players Championship at TPC At Sawgrass, for the second time.

Nearly half of Woods’ seventy-nine career wins have come on a handful of courses. On
courses where he has not played before or has played very little, Tiger Woods has become just
another golfer, albeit a very good player just not the all-time greatest. I may be biased,
having come of age in Columbus during the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, back when Jack Nicklaus ruled
the fairways, however, to me Mr. Nicklaus will always be the greatest because of the competition he
played against.

— Steven H. Spring, South Charleston

Ray: Nothing written about the Scarlet and Gray presence at Cal's impressive Memorial Stadium
can top up this excerpt from a California blog, Bear Insider:

"Start of the 4th quarter, the OSU band is playing Hang On Sloopy, and the fans are doing
that O-H-I-O circling the stadium ... OUR stadium. (It's actually very impressive). The (Cal)
rooting section decide to counter with that incredibly STUPID "Cal-i-for-nia (clap clap clap clap
clap). Except that half the students are in the aisle with their backs turned, heading for the
exits."

My hosts, like all Cal fans, get incensed when fans wear red at the games (think Stanford)
but they had nothing but nice things to say about Buckeye fans and the Band. They though the team
was pretty good, too.

— Jim Mengel, New Albany

Ray: I am very curious why The Dispatch did not have any stories covering OU’s victory over
Marshall that was played (last) Saturday.

I understand why no coverage in Sunday’s edition as the game ended very late. However, I was
disappointed not so see anything in (Monday’s) edition. You usually cover the Bobcats very well.

— Larry McVay, via email

Editor: My wife and I just shook our heads as we watched a Sunday evening newscast from a
local TV station. The reporter was talking about the Buckeyes’ football game and included a brief
interview with one of their best players. This "student-athlete" said, in answer to a question,
"... the season was tooken from him ..."

Now, we might expect a second-grader to use incorrect English like "tooken," but not a
college student! This is just one more example clearly demonstrating that some football players are
there just to bring money to OSU, and are not there for an education! Athlete, yes.
Student-athlete, I think not! Why not stop the disguise and just hire football players who would
not be required to be "students?"

— Russ Cellar, Columbus

Editor: Having missed the end of the Ohio University game versus Marshall Saturday night, I
checked the Dispatch on Sunday to see the story and result. The notation "late" was disappointing.
However, I checked Monday's paper to finally find the result. Monday's sport section had absolutely
no update or mention of Ohio University: No game summary and no final score.